Armageddon Yellowstone: Hell Unleashed

The world’s largest super-volcano located underneath the United States’ Yellowstone National Park is set to blow.The UK's Daily Mail, Jan. 25, 2011.When biopsychologist Tom Havyn sets out to kill himself at his recently inherited ranch near the small berg of Glensford, Idaho, he unwittingly puts humanity on a trajectory to disaster. Havyn becomes the trigger for an extinction level volcano. More

It would explode with a force a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980. The world’s largest super-volcano located underneath the United States’ Yellowstone National Park is set to blow.The UK's Daily Mail, Jan. 25, 2011.When biological psychologist Tom Havyn sets out to kill himself at his recently inherited ranch near the small berg of Glensford, Idaho, he unwittingly puts humanity on a trajectory to disaster. Blaming himself for his son Travis’s massive brain trauma, Havyn makes a Faustian bargain with an exotic stranger who possesses the technology to repair and even enhance the damaged tissue. Moreover, the new traits could be passed on, making Travis the key to a breathtaking leap in human evolution.Soon, Havyn finds himself acting as a Judas goat for an antigovernment paramilitary organization. His newfound ability to predict disaster turns him into a modern day messiah who draws thousands of followers into a trap set by the paramilitary group with plans to use them as carriers for a highly infectious designer virus. Simultaneously, the group adulterates the U.S. food supply.Converging events, including earthquakes, random killings, and food shortages create a nationwide panic of monumental proportions. Lost in the maelstrom is the fact that an extinction level event looms in the background. The vast, deep reservoir of fiery, molten rock that feeds cyclical cataclysmic eruptions at Yellowstone is nearing the level of the last supervolcano, which occurred 600,000 years ago. Only this time, one man has his finger on the volcano's hair trigger. In the bargain to save his son, Havyn has been given the means to unleash hell on civilization, to scorch much of the earth clean and make room for a new sort of human race represented by his biologically reengineered son.Armageddon Yellowstone: Hell Unleashed is a gripping story of human emotion and behavior under the cloud of annihilation.

Dr. Terry Rich Hartley has served "hard time" as a research psychologist, psychology professor, and award-winning newspaper journalist. He naturally brings psychological principles to fiction and is the author of The Octopus Hook Murders, Armageddon Yellowstone: Hell Unleashed, Paranoia on River Road, The Ditchrider's Daughter, Whisper, Whisper II, and House of Matches.

Review by:
Nancy DeFreitas
on Dec. 31, 2011 :
This was a good book and I recommend it to anyone who wants a good read.

(reviewed 22 days after purchase)

Review by:
Ann Corley
on Dec. 29, 2011 :
An exciting blend of Stephen King horror and Michael Crichton techno-thrill. The characters leap right off the page. A great read!

(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review by:
Debbie Bennett
on Dec. 27, 2011 :
If like me, you're a Brit fascinated by Yellowstone and the films about volcanoes, this is a book worth reading. It combines geology with science fiction, with a bit of native american mystique thrown in for good measure. Rather too many viewpoints for my personal taste with a lot of short scenes that occasional left me wondering where we were, but there is a well-constructed storyline in here with detailed characters and a lot of research. I wasn't fussed with some of the info-dumping, but I did come to care about Tom and the choices he had to make. All in all, I enjoyed reading this ebook.